Aug 15, 2009

Woof

I got nothing. Brain is dry as yesterday's toast.

So let's look at some doggie pictures. Why not?

When you look at photos of strangers it's often "whatever..." But sometimes you get the feeling that you know the person. Like this guy - I'm convinced he was funny, friendly, kind. He is certainly good looking. 1948... probably too young to be drafted into the war. Good for him.

17 comments:

You'd love my mom. She always managed to cut off people's heads in photos somehow. That's how I ended up getting into photography. She would give up and give me the camera and say see what you can do with it.

PS - While the young gentleman in the photo would have been too young to participate in World War II, there's a good chance he went to Korea. If so, I hope it didn't change him. War sucks.

the fellow would have been my fathers age. He got out of the Korean war due to flat feet; his brother for being a 1/4 inch to tall.

With all the current attraction to mid-century modern, these photos truly show how such lofty ambitions played out in the average middle class american home. The bottom was shot in the 70's I know because the fellow is wearing wallabees. A shoe that was the hight of fashion back then. Another thing that I forgot about is that there was some kind of weird colonial revival thing paralleling modernist 60's design.

Did I mention orange shag and mustard colored drapes? Ramona went in for that

My own experience is that it is incredibly hard to take good dog pictures. My daughter brought the camera to an agility-training class I'm taking with my dog. She ended up with about 30 pictures of dog butts.

I hardly ever respond but I really like your blog. This is another brilliant post. I like the pictures very much and also: "Brain as dry as yesterday's toast"? Where do you come up with such lines? I love it.